{"id":95122,"date":"2022-05-20T04:43:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T03:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=95122"},"modified":"2022-05-20T04:43:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T03:43:02","slug":"wike-wont-be-allowed-to-use-nba-as-fodder-for-his-vaunting-ambition-akpata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/wike-wont-be-allowed-to-use-nba-as-fodder-for-his-vaunting-ambition-akpata\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike won\u2019t be allowed to use NBA as fodder for his vaunting ambition \u2013 Akpata"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1733297525040965158\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has ripped into Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike following his description of the group as a \u201cpaper tiger\u201d that has failed to protect the Judiciary.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nNBA President Olumide Akpata defended the association\u2019s record on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Tuesday during a book launch in honour of Justice Peter-Odili, Wike said the NBA had become a \u201cpaper tiger\u201d that had not only failed in its responsibility to protect the Judiciary in Nigeria, but had also been unable to rescue it from political intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>But connecting Wike\u2019s comments to his presidential ambition, Akpata said the governor \u201ccannot and should not be allowed to use the NBA as fodder of any sort for his vaulting ambition.\u201d\ufffc<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nAkpata reeled out several instances where the body had risen in defence of the judiciary, including when it fought in the cause of recently retired Supreme Court Justice Mary Peter-Odili, the Chief Judge of Cross River State, Justice Akon Ikpeme and Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court.<\/p>\n<p>He said Wike\u2019s forgetfulness of these and more, suggested \u201ca dissonance that is most disconcerting and should give one serious cause for concern,\u201d especially as the Rivers governor is a \u201csenior member of the Bar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akpata\u2019s statement titled, \u201cNBA has failed to protect Nigerian judiciary \u2013 My response to Governor Wike\u2019s diatribe,\u201d reads in part:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs President of the NBA, it is not usual for me to respond to criticisms regarding the activities or performance of the NBA, and indeed our philosophy has been to welcome all such criticisms and take useful lessons therefrom. But I am unable to allow the Governor of Rivers State make such baseless allegations against the NBA particularly as he is a senior member of the legal profession who will be presumed by many to be speaking from a position of knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is indeed quite ironic that Governor Wike made these unfortunate statements at an event held in honour of the Honourable Justice Mary Peter-Odili in support of whom, the NBA stood firm in the face of that brazen attack on her home in Abuja by some persons who are now standing trial in our law courts. That Governor Wike has chosen so quickly, to either forget or ignore this and other actions of the NBA in support of the Judiciary is suggestive of a dissonance that is most disconcerting and should give one serious cause for concern.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201cIt is very convenient for Governor Wike to ask Nigerian lawyers (as he did at the Book Launch) to emulate their apparently more courageous Pakistani colleagues when the issues at stake do not concern him directly, but when in 2019 the very same Nigerian lawyers had the \u201ctemerity\u201d to question his handling of the security situation in Rivers State and threatened to boycott the courts if there was no abatement of the rising insecurity in the State, he was only too quick to lambast the lawyers and to withdraw his \u201csupport\u201d for the NBA in the State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we understand that Governor Wike is currently on the political soapbox and, like a man with the proverbial new hammer, to whom any and everything is a nail, he will latch unto any chance to sell his candidacy, he cannot and should not be allowed to use the NBA as fodder of any sort for his vaulting ambition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the politico-legal history of Nigeria is replete with the commendable role that the NBA has played, and continues to play, as a primary defender of the rule of law and protector of the Judiciary in Nigeria.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has ripped into Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike following his description of the group as a \u201cpaper tiger\u201d that has failed to protect the Judiciary.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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